Sunday, February 22, 2015

Pyramid niche

It continues to be an amazing
experience to excavate a pyramid. I went into the innermost burial chamber that
we are excavating after the workmen had left for the day, and really
experienced what it means to be as quiet as the tomb.

Based on other pyramids of this
date in Nubia, we expect to find two features in the inner burial chamber: a
coffin bench and a stele niche.

Kings and queens of Kush adopted
many aspects of Egyptian burial practice, including burial in coffins. But they
retained their traditional idea of being buried on a bed, so around the stone
benches in their pyramid burials are usually four holes that would have
supported bed legs. Other Nubian royal burials have sometimes contained
fragments of the coffin itself that were left after looters smashed them.

The stele niche is a small alcove at the back of the room in which an inscribed stone would usually name the king or queen and inscribe funerary spells. And we have just found the stele niche! Empty, unfortunately…but there remain several possibilities—the stele could have fallen onto the floor, for example. We will know more soon!

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